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Seems it is not the only deal to parse, and several other readers reached out to ask what precisely they should do to get MLB.TV for the upcoming season.
Final week, whereas most New England sports activities media and followers had been in all-Super Bowl, all-the-time mode, ESPN and MLB.TV introduced the parameters of a brand new partnership that makes the community its streaming residence.
Seems it’s not the only deal to parse, and several other readers reached out to ask what precisely they should do to get MLB.TV for the upcoming season.
Hopefully they discovered the required solutions and weren’t too aggravated by the quirks and maybe surprising prices constructed into the deal.
With the NFL season behind us and spring coaching having begun in Florida and Arizona, I figured I’d put collectively a short and hopefully useful synopsis on the important thing particulars and what you’ll want to do (and pay) to observe MLB.TV’s 1000’s of out-of-market video games this season.
⋅ Subscribers to ESPN Limitless — the direct-to-consumer app the community launched in August 2025, placing all of ESPN’s broadcast channels, programming, and ESPN+ underneath one umbrella — should buy MLB.TV for $134.99 for the season. So quite than being folded into ESPN Limitless, MLB.TV is an add-on. And never a cheap one.
⋅ Those that don’t subscribe to ESPN Limitless — which prices $29.99 monthly or $299.99 per 12 months — can get MLB.TV for $149.99. That features a free month of ESPN Limitless.
⋅ However there are a few catches with that free trial. ESPN Limitless renews at $29.99 monthly in the event you don’t cancel it. And in case you are a new MLB.TV subscriber, you have to register through the ESPN app. An ESPN Limitless subscription isn’t required to keep up your MLB.TV subscription after the primary free month. However as you will have seen, they actually, actually need you to subscribe to ESPN Limitless. And so they’re going to need you to remain.
⋅ Some suppliers — together with Fubo, DirecTV, Hulu+ Reside TV, Verizon Fios, Spectrum, and Cox — have already got ESPN Limitless. On ESPN’s MLB.TV signup page, there’s a regularly requested questions part that ought to assist those that subscribe to one of many aforementioned suppliers proceed.
⋅ What else? When you’re an present MLB.TV subscriber, you can be renewed mechanically by means of your present account. In that occasion, the ESPN Limitless free trial is introduced as a suggestion quite than a requirement. It is possible for you to to stream video games on the MLB app or on ESPN’s app, when you hyperlink your MLB.TV subscription to the latter.
All of that make sense? Hopefully it doesn’t require an excessive amount of trial — free or in any other case — and error. As all the time, the inbox is open if there are issues or questions. Good luck on the market within the streaming wilderness.
Not holding again
Good on Rodney Harrison for calling out colleague Tony Dungy on NBC’s Tremendous Bowl pregame present for Pro Football Hall of Fame voters’ failure to elect Invoice Belichick in his first 12 months of eligibility.
“Any checklist that doesn’t embody Invoice Belichick on the prime is completely incorrect, you guys bought it incorrect,” mentioned Harrison, who gained two Tremendous Bowls whereas taking part in for the Patriots and Belichick.
Dungy, who coached the Colts when the Patriots had been their chief nemesis, is a member of the 50-person committee. He has not revealed his vote, saying he needs to honor the Corridor of Fame’s procedures, regardless of a number of different voters revealing their very own selections.
Harrison was not obtainable throughout NBC’s Tremendous Bowl media day in San Francisco. An NBC communications consultant mentioned on the time that he was feeling underneath the climate and would fly in later within the week. Marvel if there would have been any Harrison/Dungy stress had he been there.
Chaotic scene
Sports activities media folks prefer to gripe about Radio Row, however I get a kick out of it. First, in the event you’re there, it means you have got the great skilled fortune to be masking a Tremendous Bowl. Plus, it’s a enjoyable form of chaos, the place just about each distinguished sports activities discuss present — from radio or tv — is crammed right into a section of a conference corridor, biking friends on and off set. Present and former NFL gamers are in all places, hocking one product or one other. It’s a uniquely American scene, in a great way, and illuminating concerning how the logistics of sure exhibits work. (I’m undecided I noticed Stephen A. Smith say a phrase throughout business breaks. Possibly he ought to have extra business breaks) . . . Greatest interview get of the week? Simple: The Sports activities Hub’s Michael Felger and Tony Massarotti touchdown Bo Jackson the Friday earlier than the Tremendous Bowl. Jackson, whose feats throughout his abbreviated two-sport profession within the NFL and MLB sound legendary and but are largely true, has been identified to be standoffish. However he was partaking with “Felger and Mazz,” who had the particular highlights of his profession down pat and who sounded solely barely just like the previous “Saturday Evening Reside” skit the place a star-struck Chris Farley interviews Paul McCartney (“Bear in mind whenever you had been with the Beatles?”) . . . NESN introduced its 24-game spring coaching broadcast schedule on Thursday, with the protection commencing Friday with the traditional matchup vs. Northeastern. Of be aware: The 12 street broadcasts might be produced by the house workforce, with the opponents’ announcers on the decision. Three Saturday video games — on Feb. 28, and March 7 and 21 — will air on Ch. 7 in addition to NESN 360.
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